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Date of Patent:
Sep. 26, 2017

Filed:

Oct. 17, 2014
Applicant:

Wacker Chemie Ag, Munich, DE;

Inventor:

Hanns Wochner, Burghausen, DE;

Assignee:

Wacker Chemie AG, Munich, DE;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C23C 16/24 (2006.01); C01B 33/03 (2006.01); C23C 16/442 (2006.01); C01B 33/027 (2006.01); C01B 33/035 (2006.01); F24F 3/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C23C 16/442 (2013.01); C01B 33/027 (2013.01); C01B 33/03 (2013.01); C01B 33/035 (2013.01); F24F 3/161 (2013.01);
Abstract

Polycrystalline silicon with low contamination by impurities, especially boron and phosphorus, is manufactured by the Siemens process or by the fluidized bed process, in which deposition of polycrystalline silicon takes place in a reactor maintained within a clean room of the 1 to 100,000 class, and air entering the facility enclosing the reactors is filtered by a multiple stage filtration system wherein coarse and fine filter elements contain less than 0.1% by weight of boron and phosphorus and less than 0.01% by weight of arsenic and aluminum. Following production of the polycrystalline silicon, the polycrystalline silicon may be further treated by steps such as comminution, classifying, wet-chemical treatment, and packing, all these further steps also preferably taking place within a clean room of the 1 to 100,000 class.


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